Take A Page From The Golden Globe Blackout

Sunday night’s 75th Annual Golden Globe Award show was not tone deaf. In fact the blackout downplaying whose gown, the Louboutins, and the Cartier resulted in style taking a back seat. It was refreshing to see it not trying so hard. Instead the outward beauty was a result of the totality of the emotion it contained, underpinned by inner strength, action, and sisterhood.

Looking at photographs from the event I could see an intensified beauty, radiance to these influential women. Glam at the Golden Globes no doubt bolstered the women, but it was equity that made her. I’ve noticed in myself (and it’s a general theory) that I’m more photogenic when I’m happy and free. It showed on the faces of the women who have broken ground, over decades, to gain power and their rightful place. It was there too in the younger women who do work that matters, and find parity to be a more natural assumption of their generation.

There was an evident shift in cultural attitudes on Sunday night, one that is sweeping the nation. Strategies are developing to harness the energy, and this time there is realistic hope to latch on to. It seems like we might have a chance to get back to the expectations of the Women’s Movement from 50 years ago. It’s as if we went through decades with our eyes glazed over to the injustice of being second-class citizens.

I am inspired and motivated by these women who have not only raised a voice, but put together a strategy for change the likes of which hasn’t been seen, for example, in politics the last year. The Time’s Up campaign, organized by Hollywood’s leading women, is an initiative to fight against sexual harassment, putting muscle and some $15 million behind it to support women who don’t have the means to take action on their own. Below, reminders of how accomplished the force, looking for a reckoning ahead.

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Barbra Streisand: Legend, One of the Best-Selling Recording Artists of All Time, 2 Academy Awards, 9 Golden Globe Awards, First and Only Woman to Win Golden Globe Best Director, in 1984.